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Song of a wanderer: Beckoned by eternity
Book by Cheng, Li
398 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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March 28, 2018
Li Cheng’s atheistic world view in China is typical of his generation of Chinese scholars and the millennial generation who is a little younger. He says “it would be ludicrous for someone of my caliber who had received higher education in China and who had also earned a doctoral degree in the United States to believe and worship God. It would be decidedly undignified” (p. 387).
He explains the implication of being raised in a communist, naturalistic world view where the age of antagonism between science and religion has been deeply ingrained in the hearts of the people. He says, “Following the rise of modern science, many educated people also begin to accept the worldviews of humanism and naturalism. They upheld the logic that humans are the masters of the universe; therefore, God and any other supernatural forces do not exist. Instead, they…[recognize] science as the only method for knowing truth…and denied all objective truth beyond the material world… If evolution was the truth, then the Bible must be false” (pp. 185-186). This book is both his testimony of why he became a Christian and an apologetic that defends the truths of the Christian faith from a scientific perspective. It is an invaluable topic for Chinese intellectuals.
He explains the implication of being raised in a communist, naturalistic world view where the age of antagonism between science and religion has been deeply ingrained in the hearts of the people. He says, “Following the rise of modern science, many educated people also begin to accept the worldviews of humanism and naturalism. They upheld the logic that humans are the masters of the universe; therefore, God and any other supernatural forces do not exist. Instead, they…[recognize] science as the only method for knowing truth…and denied all objective truth beyond the material world… If evolution was the truth, then the Bible must be false” (pp. 185-186). This book is both his testimony of why he became a Christian and an apologetic that defends the truths of the Christian faith from a scientific perspective. It is an invaluable topic for Chinese intellectuals.
January 7, 2020
Give this book to your Chinese friends in simplified Chinese. It's about a Chinese phd student who discovers who Jesus is while studying in the USA. It's his journey about what he learned about god. It's basically a Chinese version of Josh McDowell's book "Evidence Demands A Verdict".
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